Zhu Cijiong pondered for a moment, then said calmly, "Exchanging supplies for intelligence is not impossible, but Brocade Guard personnel must be involved; otherwise, it will be treated as collusion with the enemy! I wonder what Governor-General Wang thinks of this?"
"In the future, leave the spending of money for intelligence to the Imperial Guard’s Investigative Division. The Pacify the Liaodong Army should focus solely on fighting," Wang Yongji politely declined Zhu Cijiong’s suggestion.
Though it appeared Zhu Cijiong was merely having the Brocade Guard participate for the sake of oversight, he was, in reality, brazenly inserting them into the army. This was the equivalent of throwing sand into the eyes of the military commanders, which would inevitably leave them disgruntled and foster a crisis of trust.
Chapter 933